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TIL that in 2011, tens of thousands of Detroiters petitioned to prevent Nickelback from playing at the NFL Thanksgiving Day football game halftime show

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j6XwN TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
RNa1 TIL The Guy who voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy’s Laugh was making the equivolent of over $300,000 a year just for that laugh
XjxX TIL The original plans for the Sydney Opera House projected a cost of $7 million and completion date of 26 January 1963. It was finished in 1973, ten years late, and at a cost of $102 million, some 1,500% over budget.
gMVb7 TIL Jesus Christ is estimated to have been born around the years 6-4 BC
0wXOj TIL M. Night Shyamalan dropped out of the Life of Pi film because he thought his name would besmirch the movie because it had a twist ending.